Hanger for wearing-apparel



(No Model.)

W. EYGES.

HANGER FOR WEARING APPAREL No. 399,610. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'ILLIAH EYGES, 015 BOSTON, MASSACIII'SE'!"S.

HANGER FOR WEARING-APPAREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,510, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed April 24, 1888. Serial No. 271,680. (No model.)

To all Hill/07121 it may concern:

Be it known' that I, WILLIAM E'YGES, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Hangers for \Vearirig-Apparel, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specilicat ion, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the product-ion of a hanger shaped to support several articles of wearing-apparelas, for instance, coat and pantaloonsthe hanger being also shown as adapted to hold a hat.

Coat-hangers as now commonly made and in use fail to support the coat, except in the line of the shoulder-seam, and as a result a coat, if left for any length of time on the hanger, sags out of shape both at the front and back.

My improved hanger has a brace or support at its front side to support the front of the coat, and the hanger is also shown as provided with a similar brace at the back to support the back of. the coat. I have also provided the hanger with a cross-bar by which to hold pantaloons, the said bar being shown as provided with notches to receive the buttons of the waistband, while above the shoulder portion I have added to the hanger a hatholder.

My improved hanger is shown as composed of wire bent into novel shape, and one or both of the braces are made to fold up toward the center of the hanger to thereby economize space in packing.

Figure 1 in side elevation represents a hanger embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a top or plan view thereof; and Fig.3, an end elevation of the hanger shown in Fig. l hung upon a hook in the wall.

The hanger herein shown has an attached hat-holder, H, composed of a piece of wire bent to leave a loop-like part to receive against it the inner side of the hat-crown, the said wire 5 back brace, I), having its ends bent into the said loops, substantially as described.

being curved at 71, extended backward to the shoulder portion a of the hanger, and provided with a book, 71,, while at its opposite f end it has a hook, 71 which engages the pantaloons-bar p and acts as a central support for it. The pan-taloons-bar p is shown as a bent rod or wire, having two like eyes or loops,

the fly, and with other loops or eyes, 1') p", to receive the buttons at the side and rear of the waistband, thus suspending the pantaloons by their buttons from the bar 2, the coat, or it may be vest and coat, to be hung on the other parts of thehangcrs. covering the upper portion of the pautaloons.

The main or shoulder part of. the hanger to hold a coat is composed, as shown in Fig. l, to form a spring, a, and then bent to form loops (L in which are engaged the looped ends of the rod or wire p, the rod or barbeinthen bent out, as at a and its ends are bent, as at a about the main body of the rod or bar, as at a The bent portion of the rod o,near where the ends a are bent about the main body of the rod, has connected to it a bracebar, 0. The back brace, b, is composed of a wire, curved as shown, and having its ends bent into the loops (L The front brace,f, to sustain the front part of the coat, is curved outwardly, as shown, and its ends are looped about portions of the main rod or bar a just above the loops or eyes ed, the front brace being so connected with the bar a. as to be turned up into the dotted-line position against the main bar a when it is desired to pack the hanger away.

To enable the hanger to be hung up against a wall, and yetkeep the hanger in correct vertical position, I have provided the spring or neck part a of the hanger with an extension, 6, composed of wire, which may be caughtupon a hook or nail, as e.

I claim 1. The shoulder portion a of the hanger, bent to form end loops, and the brace-bar c, extended rearwa rdly from the shoulder portion, combiued with the transverse pantaloons-supporting bar 2), engaging the said end loop, substan tially as described.

2. The shoulder portion a of the hanger, bent to form end loops, a combined with the curved 3. The shoulder portion a and transverse pantaloons-barp, connected to the ends thereof, combined with the loop-like hat-holder H,

p, to receive in them the two usual buttons attached to the front of the waistband near 1 having hooks to engage the shoulder portion, and the bar 1), to form a central support for the latter, substantially as described.

L The shoulderportion (1,0(Hhhll19tl withthe IOO curved back and front braces for a coat, 0011- In testiinonywhereof Ihave signed my name nected to the said shoulder portion at or near to this specification in the presence of two subits ends to opefate substantially as described. scribing witnesses.

5. The shoulder portion a, bent snbstan- WILLIAM EYGES. 5 tially as shown and described, and its at- Witnesses: r

tached hook 6, combined with the back and BERNIOE J. NoYEs, front braces, substantially as described. F. L. EMERY. 

